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Tuesday 9:00am–5:00pm
Wednesday 9:00am–5:00pm
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Friday 9:00am–5:00pm
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Great service and awesome selection

I just picked up my new/old Corvette from GR Auto Gallery. I worked all details out prior to pickup and the vehicle, dealership and personnel that I worked with was superb. Highly recommend and would recommend to people and use again! Thanks GR Auto Gallery

Rating breakdown (out of 5):
  • Customer service 5.0
  • Buying process 5.0
  • Quality of repair 5.0
  • Overall facilities 5.0
  • Overall experience 5.0
  • Does recommend this dealer
  • Shopped for a used car
  • Did make a purchase
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Extremely poor customer experience

I bought a 2005 Jaguar XJR from GR auto Gallery in late December, 2017. I picked the car up in early January. Cars transmission had a major malfunction less than 25 miles from the dealership, with more than 375 miles left on my drive home. Car was also unable to create heat, and the windshield washers were not operational. I was able to nurse it home through rough conditions, and then had it towed to a well-regarded, independent Jaguar shop. What the shop found was disappointing to say the least: The car was critically low on both transmission fluid and engine coolant. When filled with test fluids both the transmission and coolant system exhibited significant leaks. Damage to the transmission was catastrophic, damage to coolant system significant, and the total repair bill to simply get the car in condition to drive down the road was $7500 (now up over to $8000 when full extent of gasket damage from overheat was uncovered). This repair cost is more than 70% of the purchase price of the car, and that does not include the almost 1k I had to spend on tires with their preferred vendor to simply drive away from the lot (I was made aware the car was undrivable in any inclement weather on the current tires after I had wired them the funds). As soon as I had the diagnosis I reached out to the GR sales person, let them know what I had been through in the 3 days since picking up the car, provided any/all detail I could muster, and then asked them if they would be willing to help me in some meaningful way in order to make this right (I asked for them to share the cost 50/50). Their co-owner emailed me back, provided no apology, suggested I had errored in not getting a pre-purchase inspection, told me that they were not going to take any action towards restitution, and then thanked me for my business. I responded by letting them know how unfair I thought that stance was, and that I was highly concerned that they would let a customer drive off their lot with a car that was obviously leaking critical fluids, and in fact was so low on those fluids that the car catastrophically failed before I could get out of their zipcode, and that it was my duty to let the buying public know about my experience. The co-owner responded by saying they had no “crystal ball” that could have told them the car was leaking critical fluids, and as a result was catastrophically low on such fluids. He insisted that I should at least be grateful that they had been kind enough to let me know I needed to buy new tires, after I had paid them for the car, so I did not end up “in a ditch”. He then told me that I was free to “rant” all I wanted to about their business online, but it would not affect their happy customers, and that threatening to use “gossip” was not a way to induce them to help me. Again, there was no apology, no responsibility taken for allowing the car to leave their dealer in such a dangerous condition, and nothing that indicated they would do anything to amend for this situation, or do anything different to prevent such a happenstance in the future. I responded to him letting him know I thought the whole thing was unacceptable, that I did not plan to “rant” or “gossip”, but that I was simply going to tell my story and let others understand the nature of their operation. He responded a final time with a two-sentence email offering me a pittance of restitution ($550) if I signed some type of hold harmless paperwork, and tell me they “were sorry that this happened on my purchase”. Again, no responsibility taken for the clear neglect they showed, no phone call, not earnestness or honesty. I told them they could keep the money. Bottom line is this: Do not do any business with this group. They clearly do not have any best practices in place to insure the vehicles they sell can even be started without potential damaging effects, but more importantly they take absolutely no responsibility to do such due diligence. The nature of the leaks the car they sold me had makes it hard for me to believe they did not have any warning that there was serious issues, but that is not something I can know with certainty. What I do know is that this group is not a partner, does not take responsibility for their negligent actions, and will not even take the time to simply pick up the phone and show any empathy for a customer who has had an unbelievably bad experience directly caused by that negligence. If you care about your own wallet and sanity just move to the next listing, work with a dealer who has a semblance of honor, best practice, and decency. James Randall-

Rating breakdown (out of 5):
  • Customer service 1.0
  • Buying process
  • Quality of repair
  • Overall facilities
  • Overall experience 1.0
  • Does not recommend this dealer
  • Shopped for a used car
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Dealer response

James We are sorry your experience was not better. We do check fluid levels in our vehicles and do a basic inspection. As mentioned in our conversations driving a car with a check engine light or fluid level low light is not the best choice. I am confident that if you would of stopped driving the car immediately you would of been able to avoid most of these costs. The tires were recommeneded due to the fact that the tires were performance tires on this car and you wanted to pick up and drive home in a snow storm. We were trying to look out for your best interest as opposed to trying to drive a performance rear wheel drive vehicle in terrible weather conditions...sorry for looking out for our customers. We always recommend a inspection when buying a car sight unseen to protect yourself, but even with that inspection the fluids would of come back at proper levels and there would of been no way to predict this issue. Again driving a car for over 300 miles when you knew something was wrong is hard for me to understand. We did offer you some help as many used car dealers sell cars AS IS and never offer any help once the car is delivered. We sell over 1,000 vehicles each year and with the nature of older vehicles, things do go wrong and many of them are impossible to detect or forsee. We appreciate your feedback and can assure all of our prospective buyers that overall we have a VERY satisfied customer base and as with any business, only a fraction of our satisfied customers take the time to write a review and people like James make it their new pastime to degrade a very reputable business like ours. We have been in the automotive business for over 25+ years and would not continue to be successful without positive customer experiences.

Worst customer experience of my life

I bought a 2005 Jaguar XJR from GR Auto Gallery in late December, 2017. I picked the car up in early January. Cars transmission had a major malfunction less than 25 miles from the dealership, with more than 375 miles left on my drive home. Car was also unable to create heat, and the windshield washers were not operational. I was able to nurse it home through rough conditions, and then had it towed to a well-regarded, independent Jaguar shop. What the shop found was disappointing to say the least: The car was critically low on both transmission fluid and engine coolant. When filled with test fluids both the transmission and coolant system exhibited significant leaks. Damage to the transmission was catastrophic, damage to coolant system significant, and the total repair bill to simply get the car in condition to drive down the road was $7500 (now up over to $8000 when full extent of gasket damage from overheat was uncovered). This repair cost is more than 70% of the purchase price of the car, and that does not include the almost 1k I had to spend on tires with their preferred vendor to simply drive away from the lot (I was made aware the car was undrivable in any inclement weather on the current tires after I had wired them the funds). As soon as I had the diagnosis I reached out to the GR sales person, let them know what I had been through in the 3 days since picking up the car, provided any/all detail I could muster, and then asked them if they would be willing to help me in some meaningful way in order to make this right (I asked for them to share the cost 50/50). Their co-owner emailed me back, provided no apology, suggested I had errored in not getting a pre-purchase inspection, told me that they were not going to take any action towards restitution, and then thanked me for my business. I responded by letting them know how unfair I thought that stance was, and that I was highly concerned that they would let a customer drive off their lot with a car that was obviously leaking critical fluids, and in fact was so low on those fluids that the car catastrophically failed before I could get out of their zipcode, and that it was my duty to let the buying public know about my experience. The co-owner responded by saying they had no ?crystal ball? that could have told them the car was leaking critical fluids, and as a result was catastrophically low on such fluids. He insisted that I should at least be grateful that they had been kind enough to let me know I needed to buy new tires, after I had paid them for the car, so I did not end up ?in a ditch?. He then told me that I was free to ?rant? all I wanted to about their business online, but it would not affect their happy customers, and that threatening to use ?gossip? was not a way to induce them to help me. Again, there was no apology, no responsibility taken for allowing the car to leave their dealer in such a dangerous condition, and nothing that indicated they would do anything to amend for this situation, or do anything different to prevent such a happenstance in the future. I responded to him letting him know I thought the whole thing was unacceptable, that I did not plan to ?rant? or ?gossip?, but that I was simply going to tell my story and let others understand the nature of their operation. He responded a final time with a two-sentence email offering me a pittance of restitution ($550) if I signed some type of hold harmless paperwork, and tell me they ?were sorry that this happened on my purchase?. Again, no responsibility taken for the clear neglect they showed, no phone call, not earnestness or honesty. I told them they could keep the money. Bottom line is this: Do not do any business with this group. They will not insure the car is in running condition, will not take responsibility for negligence, and will show no empathy, partnership, or compassion if you are a victim of that negligence. don't let what happened to me happen to you, find a car elsewhere!!

Rating breakdown (out of 5):
  • Customer service 1.0
  • Buying process 3.0
  • Quality of repair 1.0
  • Overall facilities 4.0
  • Overall experience 1.0
  • Does not recommend this dealer
  • Shopped for a used car
  • Did make a purchase
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Dealer response

James We are sorry your experience was not better. We do check fluid levels in our vehicles and do a basic inspection. As mentioned in our conversations driving a car with a check engine light or fluid level low light is not the best choice. I am confident that if you would of stopped driving the car immediately you would of been able to avoid most of these costs. The tires were recommeneded due to the fact that the tires were performance tires on this car and you wanted to pick up and drive home in a snow storm. We were trying to look out for your best interest as opposed to trying to drive a performance rear wheel drive vehicle in terrible weather conditions...sorry for looking out for our customers. We always recommend a inspection when buying a car sight unseen to protect yourself, but even with that inspection the fluids would of come back at proper levels and there would of been no way to predict this issue. Again driving a car for over 300 miles when you knew something was wrong is hard for me to understand. We did offer you some help as many used car dealers sell cars AS IS and never offer any help once the car is delivered. We sell over 1,000 vehicles each year and with the nature of older vehicles, things do go wrong and many of them are impossible to detect or forsee. We appreciate your feedback and can assure all of our prospective buyers that overall we have a VERY satisfied customer base and as with any business, only a fraction of our satisfied customers take the time to write a review and people like James make it their new pastime to degrade a very reputable business like ours. We have been in the automotive business for over 25+ years and would not continue to be successful without positive customer experiences.

1969 Dodge Dart "top notch GTS"

ask and you shall receive, but not at GR Auto Gallery. asked for some information, got very vague answers, but also.....a question: "are you interested in making an offer?". this was from Shaun Himmelspach, who then told me he would try to get the pictures of the restoration from the owner. that was on October 18th, it's now October 30th.....BAD BUSINESS! I feel for the owner of the vehicle that will not get his vehicle sold because of GR not doing their "due diligence" to sell the vehicle, or keeping to their word. if you can't trust them to get information for you (or at the very least, respond), then I certainly would not take the next step to purchase a vehicle from GR.

Rating breakdown (out of 5):
  • Customer service 1.0
  • Buying process
  • Quality of repair
  • Overall facilities
  • Overall experience 1.0
  • Does not recommend this dealer
  • Shopped for a used car
  • Did not make a purchase
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Dealer response

John Sorry your questions were not answered quickly for you, we do get cars in on consignment that the customers dont know much about and we would rather be honest with you and provide limited info that lie to our customers and make up a story about the cars history. We always return all emails, phone calls and inquires quickly and Shaun is one of our best salesman we have so I do find this very hard to believe. We also do not entertain low ball offers that are way below market price. Good luck in your car purchase and if we can help in the future, let us know. Christopher H Owner

truly disappointing

Sales staff is very unhelpful and straight up rude. Miss represented a car to be in much better condition that is was. Once imperfections were brought to light, sales staff got extremely rude and said they can?t help us. Spoke to the sales staff before driving up. and they claimed the car was in great condition once we arrive from a four hour trip up, we realize the car is in no where near good condition... at most it was fair condition. Again sales staff was super rude, and didint care about our day wasted and our 8 hour round trip.

Rating breakdown (out of 5):
  • Customer service 1.0
  • Buying process
  • Quality of repair
  • Overall facilities 2.0
  • Overall experience 1.0
  • Does not recommend this dealer
  • Shopped for a used car
  • Did not make a purchase
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Dealer response

Sorry to hear about your experience. We do our best to describe and showcase all of our vehicles. My staff is trained to help the customer and be as professional as possible and I am shocked that you had this bad experience. Feel free to reach out to me if I can be of further service. Christopher H Owner

No response

Sent several requests to see a Carfax report on a vehicle I was interested in. Absolutely no response to my request. Any dealer unwilling to provide a free carfax report has something to hide.

Rating breakdown (out of 5):
  • Customer service 1.0
  • Buying process
  • Quality of repair
  • Overall facilities
  • Overall experience 1.0
  • Does not recommend this dealer
  • Shopped for a used car
  • Did not make a purchase
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Dealer response

Hello Dan Not sure when you requested the info but would be happy to provide you with a CarFax. FYI, CarFax is not FREE, we pay a monthly service for this service. I do find it hard to believe that any of my sales staff would not provide this to you at your request...did you give a valid email or phone number? Thanks

Great place and very friendly staff

Have visited two of their locations - GR and Wixom and very cool place with a very wide array of vehicles. The atmosphere was much different than most dealers as they let me browse without some pushy sales person breathing down my neck. Did not buy, but would for sure check them out once I get into the market and have some extra money in my pocket.

Rating breakdown (out of 5):
  • Customer service 5.0
  • Buying process
  • Quality of repair
  • Overall facilities
  • Overall experience 5.0
  • Does recommend this dealer
  • Shopped for a used car
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Dealer response

Thank you and please keep us in mind when you make a decision. We are here to help!

Very knowledgible.

Looking for a classic truck and while the truck I inquired about was too much of a project for me to take on at this time, the sales rep I exchanged e-mail with was very informative and courteous.

Rating breakdown (out of 5):
  • Customer service
  • Buying process
  • Quality of repair
  • Overall facilities
  • Overall experience 5.0
  • Does recommend this dealer
  • Shopped for a used car
  • Did not make a purchase
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Dealer response

Thank you!

Great Experience!

As a first time classic car buyer I found the entire GRautogallery experience to be exceptional. They were extremely responsive to my every question and concern. The car was absolutely presented as described! Cory made the entire transaction as flawless as possible. A true 5 star rating! Tom Connecticut

Rating breakdown (out of 5):
  • Customer service 5.0
  • Buying process 5.0
  • Quality of repair
  • Overall facilities 5.0
  • Overall experience 5.0
  • Does recommend this dealer
  • Shopped for a used car
  • Did make a purchase
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Dealer response

Appreciate the great endorsement...it means a lot in this bitter world :)

Professional Customer Service

I was shopping for a 1989 Lincoln Town Car, found one at GR Auto Gallery, emailed for more information and under-carriage pics and received a prompt reply. Very responsive and professional! THANKS!

Rating breakdown (out of 5):
  • Customer service 5.0
  • Buying process
  • Quality of repair
  • Overall facilities
  • Overall experience 5.0
  • Does recommend this dealer
  • Shopped for a used car
  • Did not make a purchase
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Dealer response

Thank you and enjoy your shopping experience!